Psychotherapy in a time of political crisis

I’ve been wanting to write a lot more about the overlap between politics and psychotherapy these last few weeks. Recent world events have got me thinking more about the impact of transpersonal processes on the emotional wellbeing of the individual. This was brought home to me by a number of traumatic images of police brutality [...]

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Occupy therapy (a petition against therapeutic hegemony)

There is currently a petition running to “reform the NICE guidelines and end the bias towards Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) in the IAPT programme”. I am supporting this because, metaphorically speaking, 1% of the UK’s Counselling and Psychotherapy profession is in danger of enjoying more influence over the delivery of mental health services than the [...]

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